From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 17:57:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349E537B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from craig.afraid.org (h24-69-213-234.cc.shawcable.net [24.69.213.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6799243FAF for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:57:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@craig.afraid.org) Received: from fireball.internal.lan ([10.0.0.2] helo=fireball) by craig.afraid.org with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 19PXRu-0009Er-Pt for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:57:18 -0700 Message-ID: <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball> From: "Craig Reyenga" To: Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:57:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: FreeBSD Version Release numbers X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Craig Reyenga List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:57:16 -0000 I was just wondering what people think of changing the FreeBSD release numbering system. Here is my idea: -FreeBSD 4.X is stable right now. -FreeBSD 5.0,5.1(maybe 5.2) are not-so-stable. -FreeBSD 5.3 is supposed to be. Perhaps all odd major numbers should be considered development versions. 5.3 would instead be called 6.0, to signify that it is ready for general use by everyone. HEAD would change to 7.0-CURRENT, and the process would repeat, with 7.0-RELEASE thru 7.N-RELEASE (with "N" being the last development version) until the tree is then ready for 8.0, which would be of course marked "stable." I think it is a good idea because I have seen a lot of confusion as to which release people should be installing. Yes, they could RTveryFineM, but some people just don't and I feel a numbering system such as the one above would ease the headache a little. Just my $0.02, maybe worth $0.00 in this case. -Craig (Please note that I am merely thinking out loud, feel free not to insult.)